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A Story of the SeaNew York Dodd, Mead & Company 1878 Cloth Very Good 16mo. 92 pages, including frontispiece and 10 full page engravings. Apparently rare issue, with this story only, OCLC locating no copies. Dodd Mead copyright date of 1878; no date on title page. Gift inscription to front free endpaper Christmas 1883. Attractive publisher's binding with paper insert surrounded. Brown blemish to six leaves, the worst of which is pictured. Binding sound and hinges secure.
Price:
188.50 CDN

Mother Goose's ChimesNew York McLoughlin Brothers 1886 Card covers Very Good short 8vo. Chrome litho title page, 64 [unpaged] pages and rear endpaper. Copyright 1886 on urn lower left front cover. Running title: Mother Goose's Melodies. Half of the 64 pages are illustrated in full colour. Light foxing to plain text pages. Spine rubbed and joints splitting at head and foot, though covers remain well attached. Third of an inch closed tear to side margin of one leaf. No inscriptions or scribbling.
Price:
552.50 CDN

Round The World and Other StoriesLondon Groombridge and Sons Cloth Good 12mo. Frontispiece with tissue guard, title page, 144 unnumberd pages followed by 16 pages of Groombridge ads. Cloth decorated in black, blue and gilt. No stated date of issue. Greenock (Burgh) School Board, Shaw Street Public School Session 1881-82 prize plate to front pastedown: awarded to Mary Gay for diligence and progress by headmaster John Wilson. Bookseller's ticket of John Kinloch of Greenock. Heavy foxing to second endpapers front and rear; title page a bit grubby; occasional foxing within. Three stories, illustrated: A Lady's Travels; The Prophet and the Lost City; The Ship and the Island. Hinges a touch slack but binding is sound.
Price:
383.50 CDN

Variety, In Prose and Verse, For Little ChildrenNew York Samuel Wood & Sons Printed wrapper Very Good 32mo. 32 pages. Printed wrapper on card; sewn. One illustration on each page excepting title and 32. Semi-circle stain front and rear mirrored on title page and final 2 leaves; elsewhere light foxing. No stated date of issue. This issue does not carry the Baltimore imprint; and is marked R. & G.S. Wood Printers. Between 1828 and 1836: "Samuel Wood & Sons were at this address from 1817 to 1836; R. & G.S. Wood were in business from 1828 to at least 1846." [unknown cataloguer Worldcat] OCLC number: 589558095. All editions of this are scarce.
Price:
877.50 CDN

AesopThe Fables of Aesop [limited ed. in slipcase]London Hodder & Stoughton 1909 Cloth Very Good Edward J. Detmold Signed by IllustratorCream cloth with gilt; top edge gilded, others untrimmed. Light handling to cloth, and foxing to spine. Interior clean and free of inscriptions; tanning to free endpapers. Number 481 of 750 issued, signed by Detmold. 25 gorgeous plates. The original slipcase is sturdy and complete without splitting: long ago covered in patterned book-covering paper (similar to thin wallpaper) that appears to be stuck to the slipcase only along fore-edges.
Price:
2340.00 CDN

Cushing, Maria JFairyland. The Marriage of the Princess "Sunbeam".New York T.L. Cranston 1890 Cloth Very Good tall 12mo. 16 pages and four plates. A Fairy poem, with four unattributed illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt to front. Binding professionally tightened retaining all original elements. Brown slate endpapers. Gift inscription to title page. A half inch closed tear to foot of one plate. Scarce, with only one copy worldwide listed on Worldcat [Texas. 3/28/17].
Price:
383.50 CDN

Grimm Brothers [Jacob, Wilhelm]Grimm's Goblins. Selected from the Household Stories of the Brothers GrimmBoston Ticknor and Fields. 1867 Cloth Good short 8vo. George Cruikshank 111 pages, and 7 chromolithograph plates after designs by Cruikshank [complete]. Title-page in red and brown. Publisher's cloth bordered in blind, with gilt to front and spine. Spine professionally rebacked, retaining the full title [half inch loss of original panel at head and foot] and original brown slate endpapers. Christmas 1867 gift inscription in pencil to second front endpaper. Some leaves stained/smudged. Uncommon US edition.
Price:
422.50 CDN

Jordan, MildredApple in the Attic: A Pennsylvania Legend [signed]New York Alfred A Knopf 1942 First Edition Cloth Very Good 8vo inscribed and signed by authorxi, 200 pages. Publisher's decorative cloth; green topstain. First edition stated. Offsetting to pastedowns. Warmly inscribed by the author on September 11, 1942.
Price:
26.00 CDN

Kerr, JoeMr. Sharptooth [Mister Sharptooth]London Grant Richards Hardcover Good 4to. Robert H. Porteous 60 pages (numbered in pencil by hand). Uncommon British issue with different paper onlay than that of Dillingham. No stated date of issue. "Copyright in the United States of America by G. W. Dillingham Company" on verso of title page. Cloth soiled and bumped. Spine and hinges heavily but successfully reinforced some time ago with blue cloth tape and a whole lotta stitching. Hence binding is sound. Margins grubby; many small instances of small now-yellowed tape to margins - twice just touching an image and in one case (though unobtrusively) running through it. Two leaves lacking top corner but with no loss to image or text. Redeemed by the superb illustrations.
Price:
292.50 CDN

Lewis, C. S.The Last BattleNew York Macmillan 1956 First Edition Cloth Very Good Good 8vo. Pauline Baynes 175 pages. First printing stated. Jacket rubbed at extremities and lacking a small triangle top right rear panel. Both corners of front flap are clipped but $2.75 price is retained. Interior is clean and unmarked in sound binding. Jacket now in brodart: a removable archival sleeve.
Price:
292.50 CDN

MacDonald, GeorgeAt The Back of the North WindPhiladelphia David McKay Cloth Very Good short 8vo. Arthur Hughes viii, 378 pages. Publisher's pictorial cloth front and spine: to me an uncommon cover and uncommon pairing of McKay with seventy six Hughes illustrations... rather cheaply printed. No stated date of issue. Textblock edges faded; a two inch closed tear to front free endpaper. Binding sound; no inscriptions.
Price:
97.50 CDN

One Who Knows BothIn School and Out Of School, or, The history of William and John : an interesting taleNew York William Burgess, Jun. 1827 quarter leather Good 16mo. 111 pages plus 1 page list of Books For Youth for sale by Burgess at rear. Frontispiece and one other plate. Red leather spine, printed paper over boards with title to front and Books For Youth published by Burgess list on rear. Hebron Conn inscription to first free endpaper; foxing throughout. Binding is sound. First American Edition stated. Dated 1828 on front cover, 1827 on title page.
Price:
281.25 CDN